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 Januine wrote:
Sweet sweet work Talys and what an improvement on the standard kit. Not sure about the dainty ballerina feet though.....ahh, even a robot has the right to dance

Hahaha! yeah, right? There's so much wrong with that kit that it's not funny. I seriously have no idea how they took a really cool looking Thanatar Siege Automata and turned it into that thing. And thank you

I'm gonna get one.....eventually - just to see if I can make it badass and menacing and not akin to a chew toy for a koala

Here's a WIP; I've got the basecoat done, and I'm starting to worry that I won't have time to finish. My social life is getting in the way of my anti-social life
But hey, all that's left to do is a wash, highlights, metallics, back glyph plate (these things are the bane of my painting existence), paint the severed head, basing, and splatter blood everywhere; how long can that possibly take, right?

Nice!! those are some colourful pants! Very flashy.

 Talys wrote:

 Januine wrote:
Sweet sweet work Talys and what an improvement on the standard kit. Not sure about the dainty ballerina feet though.....ahh, even a robot has the right to dance

Hahaha! yeah, right? There's so much wrong with that kit that it's not funny. I seriously have no idea how they took a really cool looking Thanatar Siege Automata and turned it into that thing. And thank you

Hey Talys- your Kastelan is on the Dakka front page

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
Here's a WIP; I've got the basecoat done, and I'm starting to worry that I won't have time to finish. My social life is getting in the way of my anti-social life
But hey, all that's left to do is a wash, highlights, metallics, back glyph plate (these things are the bane of my painting existence), paint the severed head, basing, and splatter blood everywhere; how long can that possibly take, right?

Dude, that is awesome!

Just a bit of WIP, not got far with the main monster at all this month, really gonna have to do some cramming to get it finished. Managed to paint a suitably horrified chap for the base tho.

Nice trousers Gulgog, pinched from a pointy eared git dancing git?

Fetch the harpoons, time to tear a sea drake asunder. Space Marine Librarian for scale. I wasn't happy with how tall the worm/drake was so I used a resin block to boost height, pinned it with a coat hanger. Great news about this being an ocean base, I will have a spout of waves covering it all when he bursts from the waves.





There is no way I'm finishing this due to me being slow, lazy, and unable to afford a Knight. Also, my life is getting in the way.

Try dude!!! That wee vignette you're making is fething awesome!!!!

Oh wow, that is a crazy scary sea monster!

I've just painted my sand and started building the 'waves" around the sea-horse and I am crapping myself, truth be told.
I've chopped and curved some transparent plastic and I'm building on it with the thick water gel that sets hard.. This is the first coat and looks really scrappy.
Slow and steady.. Slow and steady... [Looks up] Oh Jesus wept, what did I do to my figure? [Sits on hands as to leave it alone to dry]

Stormwall, I love it! Looks awesome, I love the way he comes naturally put of the ground. That is really well modeled.

@angelofvengeance - thanks for letting me know!!

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Oh wow, that is a crazy scary sea monster!

I've just painted my sand and started building the 'waves" around the sea-horse and I am crapping myself, truth be told.
I've chopped and curved some transparent plastic and I'm building on it with the thick water gel that sets hard.. This is the first coat and looks really scrappy.
Slow and steady.. Slow and steady... [Looks up] Oh Jesus wept, what did I do to my figure? [Sits on hands as to leave it alone to dry]

I cry myself to sleep on the workstation every day, oh my poor models. I just don't know when to quit. My buddy who owns the FLGS states "I have too much going on in my mind." I had a perfect figure, tried to use small pellets to make it MK5. It... took a beautiful helmet and made it average.

 Talys wrote:
Stormwall, I love it! Looks awesome, I love the way he comes naturally put of the ground. That is really well modeled.

@angelofvengeance - thanks for letting me know!!

Not sure if you're being sarcastic due to resin block, or if you are really complimenting me. If the former, I totally earn it. If the latter, well then I'm just flattered.

Loving that model stormwall! Is the space marine part of the base? If he is, you should paint him up as a Iron snake.

In other news I literally have gotten nothing done painting wise lately. Just havent had the itch, but I should have them done come the end of the month since they are due in a competition next week.

 Ustrello wrote:
Loving that model stormwall! Is the space marine part of the base? If he is, you should paint him up as a Iron snake.

In other news I literally have gotten nothing done painting wise lately. Just haven't had the itch, but I should have them done come the end of the month since they are due in a competition next week.

He's my "scale size marine," for photo references to show the size of things I use in the blog. My very own Nordic survivor librarian. Going to paint him up with a ton of swirls and freehand, I was fortunate enough to have a woman who helps me buy my "nerd toys,"

I loved the Lord Executioner model, I feel really fortunate enough that she got it for me to convert. I understand him being an Iron Snake as well since they have that fluff but, on Stenheim these Sea Serpents are basically a reference to the Lindworm, and also Jörmungandr.

I spoiled the links to wikipedia, as the second one shows a mural with Thor's other hammer.



Now I'm back to scratch building a dropship when I should be spackling some hills for the LOER contest and doing other things. Curse you hobby ADD. My biggest problem is my LOER entry has become tedious and boring, and this one is waiting on a Knight Warden I have in reserve from GW (using store credit I have build up, as I am broke concerning the hobby budget,) but, I do not have enough money to fulfill the order. At least it gives me time to make more funds/plan it. I may go for either a classic Imperium look, a Valkyrie, or something in the same vein/style as Dark Souls.

Nice trousers Gulgog, pinched from a pointy eared git dancing git? wrote:
"Wot, these? Darn right I nicked these from a Panzee; roight after I put dis 'ere choppa thru 'is little clown mask. They's a bit tight, but he don't need 'em anymore, and every aspirin' Freeboota should 'ave 'isself a pair of flashy pants."

Think I'm getting there. Need to resist the urge to add more layers before this sets.


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FFS sideways AND duplicated? Let me try and sort that when I'm home.

Even sideways that horse is fabulous.

 Stormwall wrote:
Even sideways that horse is fabulous.

Thank you! I'm getting stick of seeing it, but it's the first thing I've really enjoyed this year.

So, any thoughts on other topics for next month. The new/old one discussed earlier is certainly going in, and 'Slow and Purposeful' makes it through from last month, anyone got any other cool suggestions?

Maybe you could do "War Machines", requiring that the entry is a mechanical contrivance of some kind. It could be a vehicle, robot, gun emplacement, or something else mechanical, but it can't just be a person in armor or something.

 Stormwall wrote:

 Talys wrote:
Stormwall, I love it! Looks awesome, I love the way he comes naturally put of the ground. That is really well modeled.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic due to resin block, or if you are really complimenting me. If the former, I totally earn it. If the latter, well then I'm just flattered.

Stormwall, that's 100% a compliment

I'm expecting great things out of the finished wyrm!

 Paradigm wrote:
So, any thoughts on other topics for next month. The new/old one discussed earlier is certainly going in, and 'Slow and Purposeful' makes it through from last month, anyone got any other cool suggestions?

"Opposites attract"?

Subterfuge ?

 Januine wrote:
Subterfuge ?

That one I like, plenty of scope within the theme. Might change it to Stealth just to open it up a bit more, but yeah, that works. Someone back in the thread mentioned elements as a possible idea, which I liked, so the list for next month will be:

Old/New (not sure how we're defining old yet; I'd say pre-2000 sculpts/styles, is that old enough?)
Stealth
Slow and Purposeful
Elemental

Sound OK?

Poll will go up tomorrow or Monday, and I as m logging all these suggestions for future use so keep them coming if you have any more ideas!

 Januine wrote:
Subterfuge ?

I like that!

Another sort of along those lines -- "Dark and Devious"

oohhh - 'Dark n Devious'....nice title that....sounds that a cocktail!!

Yay, good news... I've finished one of the Mega Nobs so I'll at least have something to enter! I'll try to get some pictures up at some point. Not sure if I'll get the other two done but who knows.

Next poll is up!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/653315.page#7920230

goddam you @$%^&*^$$^*()))(*%$$#@@!##@@!#ing purity seal.......balls......

I am actually working on my entry, hoping to have an update by the end of the day.